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• CANADA.
Sir William Van Horne lass gond to
:the Paoifio Coast,
Work has commenced on Lhe new
Canadian Pacific station at Wood -
Stook.
Under the new 0.2.11. time pard the
trip from Winnipeg to the Paoifio coast
will be ooverod in 54 hours,
Efforts are being made in Chatham
to establish a pork -packing establish-
ment on a co-operative basis.
The big iron bridge over the Grand
River at Dundee street, Paris, Ont.,
.collapsed through the undermining of
the western pier.
A Mennonite residing near the Mani-
toba boundary line has been fined
3.200 for smuggling tobacco across the
border from North Dakota.,
A apeeial train bearing 132 people
and 2.1 cars of effects from North
Dakota, passed through Moose Jaw the
other day, bound for Leduc, Alberta.
It is now proposed to extend Lite
boundaries of Dlontreal to Lake in the
whose. island by annexing the 25 odd
other municipalities established there.
The telegraphers on the lntoreolon-
Lal Railway are consulting Grand Chief
Powell and will probably present a de-
mand for better conditions of service
to the officials of the road.
Hamilton and Wentworth Milk Deal-
ers' Association has decided to ignore
the recent regulations passed by the
Hamilton Council, and if their licenses
are refused legal action will follow.
John Davenport, a Vancouver foun-
dry workman, had a close call on
Monday, when he full into a vat of
boiling asphalt and then jumped into
Burrard Inlet to cool. Hs will re-
cover.
Northern Pacific surveyors have
commenced work fur the extension of
their line northwesterly from Portage
la Prairie. Another party has also
started from McGregor Station on the
0. P. 11.
London Builders' Laborers' Union
has arranged an 8 -hour -day for 5 days
in the week, and 7 hours for Saturday,
and has secured an advance in wages
of 1 cent per hour, making 19e per
hour.
That part of the Ontario So Rainy
Rive' Railroad running through Unit-
ed States territory south of Lake of
the Woods to connect with the Man-
itoba Southeastern is to be known
as the Minnesota and Manitoba.
The much -talked -of deal by which
a New York syndicate is to obtain
control of thy. Hamilton Street Rail-
way, and is to build the projected elec-
tric
leo-tric railways to Caledonia and Guelph,
is said to be nearing consummation.
It is stated that the terms of ilia am-
algamation of the Hamilton Blast Fur-
nace Company and the Ontario Rolling
Mills Company have been agreed upon,
and that a new company with a capital
of $2,000,000, will take over the smelt-
ing works.
Reports from the Niagara fruit dis-
trict are bright. There was no prema-
ture development of buds this year,
and the late spring is favorable to
a full crop. Only Crawford peaches af-
fected by the frost, and atilt will yield
a large crop.
The American collsotor of customs
at Skagway, being at variance with the
Canadian authorities at the bound-
ary lino in regard to how far his juris-
diction extends, refuses absolutely to
allow any liquor to leave Skagway
bonded warehouse, in consequence of
which a great quantity is now stored'
there, and there Is a regular ligour
famine at Yukon points. Smugglers
are reaping a rich harvest.
Scandals in the Montreal water-
works are being probed. There have
been immense purchases of needless
material, which have been, wasted.
P1pes-and other . material. had:conse-
quently accumulated et varioue'points,
and in great quantity, and had lain
there for years. Appliances purchased
as far back as 20 years ago, and never
used, had been found lying to -day•
just where they were thrown at the
time.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Mono of the London theaters have
fire alarms.
Lord Aberdeen has suggested that
aol.oute' life Peers be appointed.
Sir Rose Lambert Prize, Bart,, an
English soldier and author, is dead.
11is now stated that Hooley, the
bankrupt promoter, will be prosecut-
ed.
The Bishop of London has started
an agitation against Sunday news-
papers.
The Marquis of Salisbury and the
Marchioness have returned from the
Riviera.
A party of 106 Finns are at New-
castle, Eng., en route to America, to
avoid Russian persecutions.
The Atlantic Transport Co, has put
a stained glass window in St. Key -
erne Church, to memory of the Mo-
hegan victims.
The famous Newgate prison is to be
demolished at once, and a new' Cen-
tral Criminal Court building erected'
on its site.
A four -mile underground electric
railway, from Baker street to Water-
loo road, to cost £2,800,000, is being
projected in London,
blr, Mleh'acl Devitt, M.P., has writ-
ten to Herr Liebkneoht, the German
Socialist, denouncing British action et
Selma and attacking Chief Justice
Chambers.
It is reported that John' Morley in-
tends moving in the British House of
Commons the .rejection of the grant of.
$150000, which it is proposed to vote
to General Lord Kitchener.
A Liverpool shipping firm has ar-
ranged to sell ten small steamsbips to
Gorman firms, who are endeavoring to
drive out the Amerlcan line by leas-
ing•all available ships for the Amari-
can 'trade,
Seine leading commercial firms of
D'faneheater, Liverpool, and Rudders.
field are farming the Canada Petro-
1003.1 Qo., with a capital of £$00,000,
Le acquire 43,000 aures of oil land In
the County of Gaspe, Que.
SEr. Joseph Chamberlain leas written,
to the Newfoundland Customs Depart-
ment requesting information upon
matters concerning smuggling from
St. Pierre to Newloundland and Can-
ada. The Colonial Secretary's enquiry
seams to indicate that the report of
the Royal Commission upon the
French shore question is not likely
to be presented to Parliament for some
weeke yet,
The Dominiou Syndicate, Limited,
has been formed in London, with a
capital of £500,000, to build the Geor-
gian Bay Canal within three years,
and develop the eleotr1cal, mineral,
pulp, and other industries along the
route. Sir Edward 'Thornton is chair-
men. Mr. McIver, of the Cunard lino,
and Mr. Jones of the Elder -Dempster
line, are also members of the syndicate.
Sir Benjamin Baker is consulting en-
gineer, while Lord Kelvin has accept-
ed the post of consulting electrical en-
gineer. Might Hon. Mr. Chamberlain
has been approached by member's of
the House of Commons with a view
to securing an Imperial subsidy.
UNITED STATES.
The bubonic plague is causing many
deaths in Formosa.
,lire did $20,000 damage to the hos-
pital of Bleokwell's's Island Penitenti-
ary, New York City.
Wm. Braden, charged with murder,
was abut to death in his Dell by a
mob at Clinton, Ark„ on Wednesday.
Twenty-six par cent., -of the acreage
of winter wheat sown in Kansas is
a failure, because of the severe win-
ter.
The United States cruiser Chicago
started from New York on her long
voyage to South Africa on Wednesday
morning.
Buffalo grain men believe there is
little danger of any of Buffalo grain
trade being diverted to the St. Law-
rence route, .as reported.
Thomas B. Reed, it is said, may give
up the Speakership, and his seat in
Congress entirely, and settle down as
a resident of New York city.
Fourteen thousand regulars are to
be sent to reinforce General Otis at
Manila, as soon as the necessary trans-
portation can be arranged.
Smallpox has increased, in Cleveland
to such an extent that the health de-
partment officials confess themselves
unable to cope with it under, the pre-
sent conditions.
Dr. Connell will, it is reported prob-
ably decline the offer of the pastorate
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church, New York, with a salary of
310,000 and a manse.
Washington's fire chief, has inaug-
urated a new system, giving bicycles
to one or more firemen of each com-
pany, to respond to local alarms, pre-
ceding their companies with fire ex-
tinguishers.
Emperor William has sent to Presi-
dent McKinley a copy of an artistic-
ally executed memorial in connection
with the consecration of the Church
of Our Saviour at Jerusalem, which
took place in Ootober last. His letter
is to ''My great and good friend."
PARIS MURDER MYSTERY.
Experiment to Discover 'Whence the
Corpse 1n the '01150 Came,
A despatch' from Paris says :—The
Prefect of Polioe hes become deeply in-
terested in unravelling the mystery in
the case of the murdered woman found
out up and commuted in a valise sunk
in the Seine. Every clue has been fol-
lowed out, but as it was decided that
the murder was not committed in Par-
is, but in some neighbouring depart-
ment, an unusual experiment was tried
on Thursday to determine whence it
probably floated.
The prefect secured a valise like that
hs which the dismembered body was
packed, filled it with the carcase of
a sheep, and planed it in the Seine to
determine bow far it would float be-
fore sinking. From this experiment it
was deaidea that the body was prob-
ably placed in the river at Boulogne,
where the murder is supposed to have
been.committed. Therefore the. investi-
gation by detectives busy been extended
to that city.
SAD LIFE AND DEATH.
Most 1110 Ryes, the Result of Two Ac
aldenis.
A despatch from St. Thomas, says;—
A particularly sad death was that of
Neville 0111, at the residence of his
father, George 0111, manager of the
Gas Company, 132 Wellington street,
on Friday morning, The young man,
who was but in his 24th year, has been
particularly afflicted. .When a boy of
ten he lost the sight of one of his
eyes through an acoident with a
pistol, and six years after the other
eye was destroyed by a oross'bow,
Being an exceptionally bright young
fellow, he never became reeonoiled to
his condition, and although a graduate
of the Ontario Institution for the
Blind, where 11e was considered the
oleverest student whoever. entered the
literary department bis affliction
paused him to shrink from society.
About six months ago he fell a prey
to tubercular peritonitis, and although
making a brave fight for life, he was
overcome by the dread malady.
HIS WHISKEY WAS PURE.
nomad cautcron's !Amor Killed No One,
Despite 111511 tllorlallty h1 the Neighbor
hood.
A despatch from London Says;-. A
Sootobtnan, like an Irishman, is very
rarely at a loss for an argument, but
arguments advanced by a eartain Don-
ald. Cameron during the past Week for
the renewal of his license to sell liquor
at Rennooll Station were, to say the
Meat, ingenloua and certainly original,
He boasted that his whiskey was so
pure that during the constamotiorl of
the line in his distriol not a navvy
died, while in the neighboring district
of Millin 25 died, end at 1l.Ittllary 2B
died ea the result of intoxication. 11:
is ptensnnt to state that the license
was renewed to this benefnotor of mat -
kind,
THIS SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAY 7.
'£The Tine and the. Itr'uwl,es," Jolla 10.
1.11. /4eldrn Text. dolor 16, 8,
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Verse 1, Tee symbols of this lesson
are so simple that explanation in de-
tail is hardly needed, One thought
rune through it all — the/ identity of
our Saviour with his diaoiplds, The
Husbandman has close, relation to the
vino ho cultivates; the shepherd has
closer intimacy with his sheep; the
Master and lila disoiplea are brought
into a union of interest and heart; but
all swill nearness and union are passed
by the identify whioh is More pictured
by the vine and the branches. I am
the true vine. The tical vine. As
England holds the rose, Scotland the
lily, Ireland the shamrock, and France
the fleur-de-lis, so the Hebrew nation
hall the vine for its symbol. In spite
of the prevalent rigid. interpretation
of the soeond commandment, this em-
blem entered into th'e artistic and poe-
tic thought of the nation, and was
familiarly reproduced. A groat gold-
en vine was festooned over the Golden
Gate of Jerusalem's temple. On coins
Judea was represented by a cluster of
grapes, Centuries earlier the psal-
mist had sung of Iereal as a vine
brought out of Egypt and planted
where briers had been; it took deep
root, and extended far; the hills were
oovered with its shadow; its boughs
ware massive as a cedar. Neverthe-
less it proved to be a £ailuro; for a
season it brought forth "wild grapes,"
then became "an empty vine;" the boar
out of the wood wasted it; the wild
beast of the field devoured it; it was
out down; it was burned with
lire; it perished utterly. Now, to
understand the beautiful passage
we now study we must put our-
selves as nearly as possible in the
mental and spiritual attitude of tbo
disciples. To thein the vine was a
ready symbol of that nation in which
the hope of the world was treasured;
for "salvation is of the Jews." ,But
they had begun to feel profoundly
what the psalmist had long before be-
wailed—that Israel had failed to
realize its holy ideal, and that they
could no longer depend on its hope.
Jesus here presents himself as the
ideal vine, of which even the holy
nation was an imperfect symbol.
Henceforth he is to stand before his
disciples in place of temple, sacrifice,
prophet and priest. He, not the nation,
is the perfect fulfi.limeat of spiritual
prophecy. 'We, listening to his words
through the echoes of nineteen cen-
turies, can badly fail to place the
emphasis (as' the disciples must have
placed it) on "T." Not the Church, nor
creed, nor faith, nor prayer is the ideal
vine; Jesus is. And so our earliest de-
duction from this parable is that
spiritual life comes. from. Union with
Christ., and in no other way. My
Father is the husbandman. Caring
for Christ and hia followers.
2. Every branch in me that beareth
not fruit he taketh away. John the
Baptist htul used almost the same
figura when he said that the ex was
laid to the root of the fruitless tree,
which was about to be hewn down and
oast into the fire. Every branch that
beureth fruit, ho purgeth it, pruneth
it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
The divine Husbandman is working for
fruit, and we join in his endeavor. The
pains and limitations. of life are his
pruning and husbandry, which some-
times bring painful experiences, but af-
terward work out for us the fruit of
righteousness. "When we are judg-
ed," says Paul, " we are chosen of the
Lord that we should not be oondemn-
ed with the world." What are the
" fruits" that we should bear i' They
inolude in the first plane, long-suffer-
ing, gentleness; goodness, faith, meek-
ness, temperance. They inolude,.in the
second place, . all good 'deeds done ter
others for Chalet's sake. Peter gives'
us, quite apart from any figure of the
vine, the great recipe for fruit -bear-
ing; If faith', virtue, knowledge, tem-
peranoe,patience, godliness, brother-
ly kindness, and charity abound in us,
we shall neither be barren nor un-
fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ. '
3. Now ye are clean through the
word. "Christ loved the Church, and
gave himself for it that he might sanc-
tify and el anse it with the washing
of water.by the word." This "word"
is a collective phrase for the entire
potency of Jesus Christ, his life, teach-
ings, , death, and 'entereaiaon, all of
which, taken together, are "the spring
and source, and not only the instru-
ment, of the Christian's purity." See
vet'se 7,
4. Abide in me, and I in you. Our
two cardinal duties are to keep our-
selves in Christ and Christ in us. The
holy relationship may be illus-
trated by the love of two hu-
man
uman beings, each of which in Leath
dwells in the other's heart. But the
fellowship must be permanent; Lo adopt
Lyteel phrase, 'it unu$t be an abiding,
n•ot a sojourning." "Wee are made
partakers oSChrist, if we hold our oon-
fidenctt steadfast unto the end." "He
that eudureth to the end shall be sav-
ed." As the branch cannot bear fruit
of itself, except it abide iu the vine ;
no more can ye, except ye abide in me,
Cub off a twig froth a vine, and it
dies; separate a Christian from Christ
and hie spjritual life ceases, "And so,'l
says Dr. Drummond, "the problem of
the Christian life is simplified to this,
to abide in Christ, to be in position,"
And he illustrates this by allusion to
the sailor who simply harnesses his
vessel to the wind, puts his wheel and
rudder in position, takes advantage of
energies already there, and lots the
vessel go by the force of the wind. So
we ;have simply to put ourselves in
commotion , with Christ. For
prayer and faith in their last analysis,
are attitude. The soul is like a cup.
Upon it blessings aro constantly pour-
ed. Turn. it upside down, and nothing
i.s rooctved; turn it straight up, and it
is filled to overflow.
6. I am the vine, yo are 1110 branch-
es. We go back In our thought to verse
1, of which verses 2, 3, ued 4 are a
particularization. 11e that abideth in
me, and I in hint, the samo bringeth
furlh maob fruit, "l?r'uitfulnessin Use
life develops cortealousness of (lariat's
indwelling, and cousciousnees of
Christ's indwelling in the soul devel-
ops fruitfulness In the 11fe."—Abhnit,
i"or Because, Without ale. Abort
from ale. Ye can do nothing. So l'au.l
nays, " I labored, yet not I, but, the
grime of God which wee in me,"
0. If a man abide not in tae, h'e is
oust forth ns a branch, and is with-
ered; and men gather them, and oast
them into the fire, and 1 hey are burn-
ed. An expansion of verse 2. The plain
English of it is that when s, Chris-
tian lives for earthly and not heaven-
ly ends he has already severed himself
from Christ, and his spirituality is in
ruins. It has been wisely re-
marked that vine branches are good
for nothing but to bear grapes; and
the other dressings of lho vineyards
are made into bonfires because there
is nothing else to do with them. In-
stead of "men gather them," the Re-
vised Version reads, "they gather
them." Lal we are not to think of
this passage as containing any doctri-
nal statement concerning hell fire,
7. 85y words. By Lha Scriptures
Christ is presented to us from different
points of view. Be here points to him-
self not as the Lamb of God, nor as the
majestic commander of the forces of
the universe, but as the Teacher, the
Truth, the Utterer of God's words. Ye
shall ask what ye will, and it shall be
done, But remember the If with
which the verse begins. If the
"words," the "sayings," of the Lord
"abide" in the Christian, bays Dr.
Moulton, his prayers must be eohoes
of those sayings. "This is the confid-
ence that we hays in him, that if we
ask anything according to his will, ho
heareth 'us; and if we know that he
hear us whatsoever we ask, we know
that we have the petitions that we de-
sired of him."
8. Herein is my Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit, "Let your
light so shine before men, that they
may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven." So
shall ye be ray disciples. In direct
proportion, that is, to our fruit -bear -
m9 As the Father hath loved .ole, so
have I loved you, A measurement
great beyond the finite comprehension.
Continue, Abide, ye in my love. "The
sap of the vine Is love.' "We have
known and believed th'e love that God
bath to us. , God is love; and he that
dwelleth in love' dwelletb in God,. and
and God in him."
10, "Obedience and love are per-
fectly • correlative. Loves assures
obedience; obedience assures love,"—
Westcott,
1.1. These things have I spoken
unto you, 011.l the "things" in this
farewell discourse, and especially the
words of our lesson. That my joy
might: remain in you. In bis inter-
cessory prayer our Saviour pleads that
bis joy might be fulfilled in. his dis-
ciples, and the repeatedly expressed
desire of his heart Is that our joy may
be full. ,There aro many reasons for
overflowing joy, even in a world where
we must have tribulation. "Our light
affliotiou, which is but for a moment,
workeih for us a far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory." ,But
especially should our joy be full be-
cause our Lordx is th'e true vine; be-
cause we are the branches; because his
Father is the Husbandman; 'bemuse
every branch that beareth fruit he
purgeth it; because, in short, of every
precious truth we learn front" this les-
son.
MORE DOUKHOBORS COMING.
The Month of May Should See 5,000 More
Reticli Our Shores -Liverpool Brokers'
Compile Int.
A despatch from London says:—The
steamship Lake Superior passed Gib-
raltar on Monday with 1,030 Doukho-
bees. She is expected to reach Que-
bec on May 10. The Lake Huron is ex-
pected to leave Batoum on May 10 with
2,000 Doukhobors, and should arrive in
Quebec on May 31. Other large par-
ties are expected to follow shortly.
Liverpool ship brokers are. bitterly
complaining of the lose of business
causedby the groat number of liners
running between the Mersey cud' the
St. Lawrence this year which engage
cargoes direct with shippers on the
berth at Montreal and Quebec to the,
exclusion of English brokers. They
say that having helped to make the
large trade existing between Liver-
pool and the St. Lawrence it is all the
more unpleasant now to be robbed of
the fruits of past labors, and that in-
creased demands of shippers for ton-
nade should pass .them for the new
tines,
BIG TUNNEL PLANNED.
Croat Bnglneer,ng feat Bohag Conaldered
to L len.
A despatch from London, sayer—The
project for a Lnnnel from England or
Scotland to Ireland is very nsuola to
the fore just now. 1t is announced
that no fewer than five separate pro-
jects aro under consideration, The
difficulties in the way are great, the
depth necessitating steep gradients for
the distance traversed, The shallow-
est sounding is 75 fathoms, and the
distance, according to one scheme, is40
miles. The estimates of cost vary
frons. £7,000,000 to £10,000,000, but the
advantages would be enormous. The
journey to America would be shorten-
ed, according to the Arnold -Foster
map, by 9501 miles.
It is thought probable that the
Walt railways will combine to take up
one sollemo or, another, in the hope of
obtaining It Gov.ernrnent guaranty.
BOTH BROTHERS DEAD,
.lion R CSaldsvell Shoots 1119 Drunter Joseph
and Then Drinks Cerbelle acid,
,A. despatch from .Bismarck, NM..
says:—James and Joseph Caldwell,
brother's living on a ranch near '11'il'-
liamsport quarrelled last night and
James sltot his brother to death with
a. rifle. He then Mi nutiltol quieide by
drinking carbolic itald,
KOW LOON RIOTS,
e--
Chinese Seem 0018armed 10 Make Trouble
--i'urxlal lit heelers nee-1'aplaltr Slsy'a
A.IYenlnl'r,
A despatch from Vancouver says ;
Details have been evolved of ilte true -
Me between the British and the Chi-
nas. at Taifoo, near Dlirs illy, in the
Kew Loon extension of Bong Kong,
11 appsnre that Captain Superintendent
May went to Taifnu for th'e purpose
of seeing how the police mal -shed which
was being erected there was getting
on, and also to exchange some Chinese
soldiers for the police guard. lie also
arranged to meet the elders of the
village. On his arrival he event to
the temple in the village and met the
elders, but there wits such a noisy
crowd that it was impossible to dis-
cuss anything. Finally the interview
terminated abruptly and some roughs
raised a row with May's interpreter.
May waited until he thought the crowd
had pooled down, and then endeavor-
ed to retire to bis boat. He bad with
Irina some Sikhs armed, two district
watchman and one Chinese policeman.
Five Chinese soldiers were also Wait-
ing outside the temple, On May and
his party getting outside some one
struck the interpreter on the head
with a brick. Bricks and other mis-
siles then began to fly about freely
all the members of May's party being
struck. The Chinese soldiers got sep-
arated from the police by the crowd
and as things began to look serious the
captain -superintendent assembled the
Sikhs in line, and ordered them
to draw their swords and charge,
In this way they beat back the crowd,
who wore armed with chairs and vari-
ous household utensils, and the police
were able to, get to the boat. Dark-
ness coming on, May marched the men
back to the mat -house 1.o protect it
and the Chinese then began another
attack. May then. saw that the vil-
lagers intended firing the mat -shed,
and while they were engaged in doing
this he withdrew his men down the
reverse slope of the hill and hid them
in some reed and cactus bushes.
After firing the mat -shed the villagers
dispersed, some of them passing quite
close to the hiding place of the pollee.
Then May made for Hong Kong. , His
Sikhs were in an exhausted condition,
They had had no food for 24 hours,
their religious belief preventing them
from eating what food was to hand.
Major-General Garooigue, Hon, J, H.
Stewart Lockhart and Captain Trefusis
left Hong Kong with the Welsh Fusi-
liers and punished the Chinese.
OUR MINERAL PRODUCTION.
An Increase of t$7,eee,ae9 In ''clue Cont.
pared '51111 181:7.
A despatch from Ottawa says:—The
summary report of the Geological Sur-
vey for 1898, just issued, estimates an
increase of about 57,000,000 in the
value of the mineral production of Can-
ada, as compared with 1897, largely
due to the development of gold -min-
ing particularly in the Yukon. Dr.
Dawson, in his report, declares that
" the acgaisition and locking up of
mineral deposits for the purposes of
speculation only has become a serious
deterrent to the development of Cana-
dian mining."
The director hails with satisfaction
the " prospect of the early erection of
a new and spacious fire -proof build-
ing " to reolace the old and inadequate
building in which the valuable collec-
tions and reoords of the survey uta
housed.
Among the many Interesting notes
of the Government geologists are the
dir'ector's report on gold and gold
dredging in the North-West Territories
and the experimental borings for oil
in Northern Alberta, in charge of
Superintendent A. W. Fraser. Mr,
Fraser reports' that the More et Pelican
river was stopped at 830 feet, owing to
the flow of gas. As to the quality of
thegas, he says' that with an inoh pipe,.
and using not the ono hundredth part
of the flow„ he had sufficient to keep
steam on a25 horse -power boiler, keep
firm in the cook stove, and supply also
a strong flare light. A strong gas
vein has also been struck at a 1,050
feet depth ut Vtoioria.
Messrs, R. G. McConnell and J. D.
Tyrrell, who visited the Klondike, es-
timate that the productive area of the
distriol. is 1,000 square miles. They re-
port favourably on the prospects of
luorative employment of capital, hy-
deaulicing or sluicing in the Klondike
country, and advise every facility be-
ing offered to inventors,
THREE MEN KILLED.
Burled Under 'Maul' Tons etSlale In a 1'cn•
navlvanhc quarry -One 111111 Cul In To 0.
8. despatch from Easton, Pa„ says:
—Three men were killed on Wednesday
by a fall of slate iu the Penargyle Val-
ley quarry, 20 miles from this city.
Two hundred tons of slate and dirt
fell into the holo and 'Edward Harding
and Joseph D. Gelman are buried un -
des it, with no hope of reooveriug their
bodies inside of two days. :l. third
rues, an Italian, was out in two. Hard-
ing was fifty years old. He leaves it
faintly of . th'ieteeo children.
SENTENCE CAME QUICK.
CeStIniv Convicted nl. Kamloops, 11.1'.,. 00
Murdering l'hlllp Walker.
A despatols from Kamloops, 13, 0,,
says:—'Phe Spring Assizes ware held
here 011 Tuesday, Mr. Justice Irving
presiding, The only ease ready was
that of Casimir, the Indian charged
with murdering Philip�Vniker on
April tSti1. A large amount of avid -
0000 was taken, altd the jury, After be-
ing out twelve inmates, returned n
verdiet of guilty, The judge itlunedi-
alely senieneed Casimir to bo hanged
on 1+'ridny, June ':hid.
fs:v.Jo nW,BELL, a.o.
James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Ont.,
brother of the Rev. Sohn tit estey dell,
B.D., prostrated by nervous heaaaches
A victim of the trouble for sel•eral
years.
South American Nervine effected a
complete .cure.
In their own particular field few men
are beter known than the Rev. John
Wesley Bell, B.D„ and bis brother 11r.
James A. Bell. The foreler will be re-
cognized by his thousands of friends all
over the country as the popular and able
missionary superintendent of the Royal
Tempters of Temperance. Among the
20,000 members of this order in Ontario
his counsel is sought on all aorta of oe-
essions. On the public platform he is one
of the strong men of the day, oattling
against the evils of intemperance.
Equally well known lo DSr. Bell in other
provinces of the Dominion, having been
for years a member of the Manitoba
Methodist Conference and part of this
time was stationed in Winnipeg. His
brother, Mr. Jamas A. Bell, is a highly
respected resident of Beaverton, where
his influence, though perhaps more cir-
cumscribed than that of his eminent
brother, is none the less effective and
productive of good. Of recent years,hew-
ever, the working ability et Mr. fames
A. Bell has been Badly marred by severe
attacks of nervous headache, accom-
panied by indigestion. Who can do fit
work whet, this trouble takes hold of.
them and especially when it become*
chronic, as was, seemingly, the ease with
31r. Bell/ The trouble reached such in-
tensity that last June he was complete.
ly prostrated, Ie this condition a friend
recommended . South American Nervine.
Ready to try anything and everything,
though be thought he had covered the
list of proprietary medicines, he ensured
a bottle o1 this great discovery, d
second bottle of the medicine was taken
and the work was done. Employing h
own language: "Two bottles of Sour
American Nervine Immediately relieve
e T
my headaches and have bunt up my
system in a wonderful manner.' .Let us
not deprecate the good our otergymea
and social reformers are doing In the
world, but how ill -fitted they would be
for their work were it not the relief
that South American Nervine brings to
them when physical ills overtake
them, and when the system, as a re.
suit of hard, earnest and conthluoue
work, breaks down. Nervine treats the
system as the wise reformer treats the
evils he is battling against, It strums at
the root of the trouble. Ali die
ease comes from disorganisation of the
nerve centers. This Is a selentifle fact.
Nervine at once works on these' nerve
centers; gives to them health and 'rig-
or; and then there courses through at
system strong,healthy, ltfe-maintatn,nll
blood, and nervous troubles of Every.
variety are things of the peat.
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
THUMPED THE PRISONER
New York Magistrate Deals Ont Legal and
i'hyslelai Cunishnienl.
A despatch frobi Bath, N •Y .,
says: Police Justine John A.
Adams, of this village, on . Thurs-
day dealt out justice in both legal and
physical doses to James Kinney, who
was up before him on a charge of wife -
beating, as he had been many times
bolore. Being well acquainted with the
misfortunes of the ill-treated wife,Jus-
doe Adams promptly sentenced Kin-
ney to serve six months In the county
gaol, and pay a fine of $50. .
"My only regret is that the law does
not allow me to give yon a longer
sentence," remarked the judge to the
prisoner.
Ts that all, judge, how about that
51.70 back in '91."
The cool impudence of the prisoner
was too much for the disgusted magis-
trate. He promptly stopped from be-
hind his desk and soientifioally admin-
istered to the grinning prisoner a
blow that sent him sprawling to the
floor.
"Next ease," calmly called out the
judge, as he resumed his seat on the
bench,
BROWNIE BICYCLE.
The '1,11110 is One 1 Lin Height, Yet It
Is complete.
A watchmaker in New York has
made the smallest bicycle in the world.
Re took two years on the job and al-
though there is no chance for remun-
e'ation, is mightily pleased with the
outcome. The tiny wheel has all the
attoehmeats of an ordinary Monte,
has a lamp that will shed light on the
acoustomed bracket, and would, if
some brownie could form the fairy
world be tempted up to ride it, sp}'l3
about a tett table at a humming gait,
It stands one inch' in height, has
wheels one 'nett is diameter, with re-
gular pncun atie tubes, ani, gpertsa
a3stt
real spring on the saddle, The cre
are throe eights of an inch long, while
the tread is only one fourth., The en -
tiro Inaohine oan be deposited in a
plan ge stampen ease, end weighs loss
t
•
RHODES AND THE SALVATIONIST
Speaks .Cpprovlagly of Their. Work In
Solite Africa and fats 01.000' lit Their
Treasw:W.
A despatch from London, says
Cecil Rhodes - appeared- on Snndny bi •
a new role, sermonizing at the Man -
skin House to the Salvation Ariuy. It.
was a semi -aristocratic funotion on
the social work of the Salvation Army.
Lord Aberdeen, Lord Loch, Lord
Monkswell and Lord Justice Rigby
were ps'eseut, the Lord Mayor presid-
ing. Mr. Rhodes was not down on the
list of speakers, but was suddenly call-
ed upon to address the meeting. He
good-bumos'odly complied, and•took off
his overooat, squared his broad shout= .
dere .and stopped briskly to the front
of the platform. He praised the opera-
tions of the Salvationists in South Af-
rica. The Caps Cabinet, after inquiet1'
ing what the Army had done, found, 11
has given homes to waifs and strays.,
had picked up the fallen, and had giv-
en them, when released, another
theme in life. He said:—'The praoti-
cal form which opinion in the Cape
Parliamenttookof the work done was
a vote in aid, which has been 'continu-
ed since, There are fifteen other col-
onies all told," continued Mr, Rhodes, •
"where grants in aid have been made
to the Army, net on a sentimental
basis, but as a praaaical return for the
work the Army does. In my 'own
church there are many disputes, but
let us pat ail those details aside and
recognize that we are all human be-
ings, be it as an officer of the Salva-
tion Army or as ,t minister Of the
church, engaged in working- for the
elevation of lennanity." Mr. Rhodes
donated a thousand dollars to the
Army.
ICE BROKE, BOTH DROWNED,
Datu,hlu 001110*' from .Owen Schell Leans
Ills Alyn t'h11¢ren..
A despatch from Winnipeg, says;—
A sad story of double drowning in the
Minatonas creak has just reaolsed the,
oily from Dauphin, Two children of
settlor named Reynolds, who former
rJ lived at Owen Sound, worm or
ossing
1:110 stream en the ins, when it gee°
wav, precipitating Loth Into the water.
Zhu boy was rescued but died next
day front the shook,